Speaking of weird Fiats, there's nothing wrong with an X1/9 that a supercharger can't fix!

And just to show that the 24 Hours Of LeMons is taking over the universe (or at least the portion of the universe comprised of Northern California car shows), here's a shot of the Italian Stallions X1/9 LeMons car. We'll be seeing this quad-carbed monster at the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza next month!

What could be better than a Maserati straight six engine? A Maserati straight six engine with Lucas fuel injection, of course! I can't see a single weak point in that plan! OK, here's a gallery for you. We'll be seeing more of that orange Fiat 128 Sport a little later; very interesting story there.

Organized by the refreshingly old-school gearheads at Lee Auto Supply, the Park Street Auto Show always brings in the usual crop of really cool shoebox Chevies, first-gen Camaros and Mustangs, and so on; while we all like those cars, we've seen enough of them in the context of car shows that I think a single photograph can be used to represent that contingent. Here it is. Don't worry, I caught one of the most perfect '67 Camaro RS convertibles you'll ever see on the street yesterday, and it will appear in a future DOTS.

You know what kind of car I'll never tire of? Beater Plymouth Valiant wagons with souped-up Slant Six engines! Yes, it's a sickness. Speaking of beater Plymouths, the Faster Farms LeMons Belvedere was there; it's getting plenty of daily-driver use as it prepares to take on the Size Matters Fury at the Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race next month.

Also, 1920s Buick hood ornaments. GM needs to bring these back! OK, here's a gallery for yez; feel free to complain about my annoying pointless-detail-obsessed photographic style. Not that I'll change it, mind you, but you'll feel better.

ABC's "CRSH CRSE" follows the successful Wipeout model of combining ridiculous stunts, contestants with sub-average intelligence, and hosts who are partially famous/funny. But this time they've added cars!

Contestants on CRSH CRSE compete in pairs through an entire series of vehicular obstacles. Though it purports to be a show about big stunts, there are less physical bloopers than Wipeout compensated with more verbal abuse. This is best exemplified by the clip above with Ralph and Jenny, which involves a lot of yelling, passive aggressiveness, and insults about driving ability. This show is basically our childhood.

Oh, and Dan Cortese and Orlando Jones are there.

You see, Casadelshawn, of Bunny With A Pancake On Its Head VW Rabbit fame decided he didn't feel like racing in Buttonwillow's 110° heat (actually, it was only about 97°) and took his '76 Audi Fox wagon to Monterey instead. He won the prestigious "Der Self-SatisfiedKrauttenWagen, 1970-current" trpphy, but he took a break from laurel-resting to shoot these photos for us.

Meanwhile, the coveted Worst Of Show trophy went to one of the most horrible-yet-cool motor vehicles ever made, a 1980 KV Mini 1. The owner towed this precision-made, belt-driven machine all the way from Washington… with an MGB! So next time you're shopping for a big ol' truck to tow your bass boat, go with British Leyland instead. Here's the official Cd'L press release:

Mike Harrell from Shoreline, WA stunned the crowd and judges with his 1980KV Mini 1 and took home Worst of Show honors. The KV is a horrible little car powered by a 125cc one cylinder 2 stroke motor that drives the rear wheels through a constantly variable ration belt drive system and friction rollers on the rear tires ensuring that little of the meager power available actually results in forward motion. The features dont stop there, to put the car in reverse, one must shut off the engine and re-start it so that it runs backwards. Combine this with the tin bumpers, solid steering shaft aimed at the drivers chest, the lack of a roof and any other safety features and it was a shoe in for the Worst of Show title. As if to convince the judges that he truly does have a screw loose, Mike towed the little French death trap behind his MGB the 1000 miles from Washington to Monterey. Well done.

Unfortunately we weren't able to make it down to Giddings, Texas for this edition of Billetproof, Jalopnik reader and camera-jockey Eric Nelson did, and passed on these great photographs for everyone to enjoy. It's got everything, cool kustoms, rusty rods, engine pr0n, chopped tops and even an Edsel that's had the letters over its yoke rearranged to spell "SLED," super cool. Thanks again for sending us a little bit of Texas Eric.

Based on an '84 Camaro convertible, - which is barely recognizable under the hand-laid charcoal and silver fiberglass - the Dream Ryder expresses its owner's whimsy and possibly his desire that Batman were a little more flamboyant in his accessorizing.

From the viper-fang grill, to the zebra and cheetah interior, and anal cleft trunk lid, it does not convey the image of design by committee. With a claimed 13 years in the creation, we're sure the builder had plenty of time to contemplate his work, although it doesn't appear that much second guessing was put into the creation.

Regardless of motive, it is unique and individualistic, however the creator does claim to have kept all the molds, so your dream ryde could potentially come true as well.

Dear friends of d'Ignorance, Thank you so much for your support so far in our effort to highlight the Mundane and truly Awful of the Automotive world. We have decided to wait until 2009 to inflict our show upon the automotive world. Flint Michigan was not built in a day and neither is a first rate Concours. With my grueling and ever expanding Billetproof schedule I simply did not have the time to pull together a show truly awful enough to do the bottom rung of the automotive world justice in 2008. The Concours d'Ignorance will have a presence on the Monterey Peninsula this year, so keep an eye out for something awful. We will be conducting a brand awareness campaign here and there at many of the car shows during the week. The show in 2009 will be something that even the designer of the Pontiac Aztec could be proud of. Just you wait and see.

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If this is going to be a celebration of all thing automotively tragic and the antithesis of Pebble Beach, we suggest holding it in Flint, Michigan, at the 235-acre concrete field formerly known as Buick City. Major sponsors should include Marvel Mystery Oil, Valvoline High-Mileage products, Bondo, JB Weld, WD40 and Spam. It should be held during the most terrifyingly hot days of August for maximum beater overheating, and all car fires should be extinguished by pushing the flaming lump into the concrete trough that is the Flint River. Oh yes, this is a good idea. (Thanks for the tip Tomsk) [Autoweek]

Team member and fellow East Bay gearhead TheEastBayKid has this to say:

With your ongoing LeMons coverage, I thought you might be interested in our team's trip to Concorso Italiano with our LeMons car. The standards for that event are surprisingly un-hard to meet—you go online, and they ask for year, make, model, and color. Our entry read like this:
1971
Alfa Romeo
Spider
Black
We raced the car in July, showed it at Concorso, and raced it again in October. It's probably going to Thunderhill, too. I work for Jay, but run with an independent team, Ecurie Ecrappe. I still feel a responsibility to lead by example, so instead of getting a CRX or 80s BMW like everyone else, our team got the worst Alfa we could find. Makes the Cal Mille Alfetta look like a trailer queen.
The car has a trunk-mounted Honda radiator and a Ferrari 512S-inspired aero package.

Check out the incredibly well-documented story of the car's build here (seriously, check it out- far too much beautiful junkyard engineering for me to describe in this post), and then take a look at #99 wowing the Ferrari purists at Concorso Italiano in Monterey here. See the gallery below for my action shots at the October Altamont LeMons race.

...(unlike Pebble Beach), and what's more, some stuff you see at the track is on the 18th green on Sunday. While the conours events and auctions are stunning and plenty of the people that you meet are fascinating, a Delage on the lawn — though fantastic in its own way — still isn't a ridiculously-turbocharged 935 ass-tearing it around Laguna Seca. Plus, the featured marque this year isn't a marque at all. The theme is Indy roadsters. And nothing nothing is quite like a goddamn Offenhauser. It's the greatest-sounding four-cylinder ever built. If you can scrape up the scratch for a minivan to camp in and a plane ticket to San Jose, we suggest you get there. Meanwhile, these two donutmonkeys are going to heaven.